APUSH - Ch. 19 Study Guide

Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE?

U.S. Army soldiers were well-equipped and supplied.

The leader most closely associated with the viewpoint in this excerpt was?

William Jennings Bryan

The Foraker Act of 1900...

established an American colonial government over Puerto Rico.

In the 1890's, the interest in American expansion overseas was motivated in part by...

fears that domestic natural resources would soon be in limited supply.

In 1899, supporters of the annexation of the Philippines argued the United States had set a precedent for taking land while treating its inhabitants as dependents in the case of the...

federal government's treatment of the American Indians.

The Grange attempted to counteract economic hardships by its...

forming market cooperatives and attempting to curb the monopolistic practices of warehouses.

Going into the election season of 1884, Grover Cleveland was respected for...

his consistent opposition to corrupt politicians and interest groups.

Jacob S. Coxey's "army" marched to Washington to demand that the federal government...

create jobs for the unemployed.

The Populist Party ceased to be a separate political party when...

it nominated the same presidential candidate as the Democrats in the election of 1896.

Throughout his adult life, William Jennings Bryan served as a powerful symbol of...

rural, Protestant, middle-class America.

The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed the United States...

should take possession of the Hawaiian Islands.

The Supreme Court eventually overturned the Granger Laws of the 1870's on the grounds that...

state regulation of freight rates was an unconstitutional attempt to control interstate commerce.

One of the primary beliefs of the Farmers' Alliances was that...

too much power was in the hands of a few corporations and financial institutions.

The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War...

transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States.

In the political battles of the late 1800's, the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds were...

two rival factions within the Republican party who fought over political patronage.

Political party loyalties of the late 1800's tended to remain stable because...

voting patterns were determined by vague cultural inclinations.

In the early 1900's, which American dependency did NOT receive territorial status?

Cuba

Which of the following beliefs of President Teddy Roosevelt dominated his foreign policy?

It is the right & duty of civilized nations to intervene in the affairs of uncivilized nations for the common good.

Most of the territory that the United States acquired in the 1890's was in the?

Pacific Ocean

Which statement best describes the political activity of the late 1800's?

Politicians did not address the problems caused by the rapid social and economic changes of the times.

Which of the following represents a policy that the authors of the excerpt would most likely support?

President Wilson's signing of the Jones Act in 1916.

All of the following developments pushed the United States into war with Spain, except?

Spain ignored U.S. diplomatic requests in regard to Cuba.

The assassination of James A. Garfield occurred as a result of the conflict between...

Stalwarts and Half-Breeds.

The speech that made William Jennings Bryan the Democratic nominee for president in 1896 climaxed with the famous words.

"you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold !"

The Omaha Platform of the Populists included all of the following proposals, except?

Federal support for national banks.

Which of the following was the most direct result of the policy stated in the excerpt above?

The United Sates intervened in many American countries in the early 20th century.

This excerpt most directly reflects the continuation of the policy that...

The independent nations of the Americas should remain free from European intervention.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the anti-imperialist sentiments expressed in this excerpt?

The provisions of the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American War.

The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 came to an end when...

a multinational armed force rescued the foreign diplomats the boxers had trapped in Peking.

The expansion of the United States in the late 1800's differed from that of earlier decades in that it involved...

all of the answers below: islands, rather than areas adjacent to existing U.S. territory, densely populated areas not suitable for massive new settlement, possessions that few Americans expected to become states, an increasing importance on foreign trade

The United States suggested the Open Door policy for China to...

all of the answers below: keep the great powers from completely destroying China by dividing it among themselves, allow U.S. merchants to trade in China without the interference of foreign governments, achieve a foreign policy victory without using military force, promote the economic ideal of free markets.

In the late 1800's, the farmers wanted the "free and unlimited coinage of silver" to...

all of the answers below: reduce the value of debts that they owed, inflate the currency, raise farm prices, increase the amount of currency.

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was ineffective for its first decade because...

all of the answers below: the government usually used the law against labor unions, the courts limited what types of businesses could be sued, the Justice Department instituted few suits against business monopolies, the government was indifferent at enforcing the act.

In the late 1800's, public officeholders tended to be concerned primarily with...

all of the answers below: winning elections, controlling patronage, dispensing jobs, maintaining bases of support.

Arguments used by Social Darwinist's in the United States to justify expansionism...

contended that all nations were engaged in a constant struggle to survive.

During the late 1800's, the federal government had a reputation for...

doing very little to ease growing problems.

President Teddy Roosevelt secured the Canal Zone in Panama by...

engineering a Panamanian revolt against Colombia.

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was essentially ineffective for the first twenty years after its passage because...

it was haphazardly enforced and was narrowly interpreted by the courts.

From which group did the Populists draw the most support?

large-scale mechanized farmers

Grover Cleveland lost the election of 1888 partly because of the issue of...

lowering tariffs.

The term "Dollar Diplomacy" refers to the...

policy of using investment to further U.S. economic interests, particularly in Latin America.

The Populist ideology rejected the idea of...

preserving a laissez-faire system of economics.

When it was first created in 1887, the Interstate Commerce Commission was designed to regulate...

railroads.

In the late 1800's, most Americans engaged in political activity because of their...

regional, ethnic, or religious sentiments.

In the Philippine War (1898-1902) that followed the Spanish American War, the United States...

suppressed with great difficulty a full-scale revolt that the majority of the Filipino people supported.

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that...

the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations to preserve stability.

According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment...

the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba to protect life and property.

The Spanish-American War revealed to American military planners...

the need to improve glaring deficiencies in the army.

One of the major problems that caused the Panic of 1893 was that...

the railroads expanded too rapidly.

During the late 1800's, the only significant form of federal assistance to individuals was...

the retired veterans' pension.